tumbril

noun4

1. •
   A cart well suited to dumping its load easily, being single-axled and also often having a hinged tailboard.

   • They’d rigged a makeshift tent of sheeting over the little tumbril of a cart and they’d put up a sign at the front that gave her history and the number of people she was known to have eaten. — 1994
2. •
   (historical) A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.

   • It is now ascertained that the tumbrel and the torches which figured in the massacre-scene of the 23d of February were prepared beforehand […] — 1848
3. •
   (historical) A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a ducking stool.
4. •
   (UK, no longer used) A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.